Mimi Zeiger's Micro Green is succinct but high on style. This mini monograph, subtitled 'Tiny Houses in Nature', is designed to appeal to everyone who has ever fantasised about a rural retreat, a weekend bolthole or even going the full Thoreau and ditching their urban existence for a cabin in the woods.
And what cabins. Featuring work by Olson Kundig Architects, Gianni Botsford, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter and many others (and with plenty of structures that'll be familiar to Wallpaper* readers), Micro Green serves up realistic doses of architectural aspiration that are very hard to resist.
The Polyhedron Habital, Bogotá D.C., Colombia, 2009, by Manuel Villa with Alberto González...
... Facing a natural landscape, the geometric pod is designed to work in conjunction with its surroundings, which is a large backyard in a Bogotá suburb
The Tiny Free House, Sacramento, California, 2010, by Michael Janzen
Coco Hut, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2009, by Gert Eussen
Rolling Huts, Mazama, Washington, 2007, by Olson Kundig Architects. The six huts are build on wheels, allowing them to leave little impact on their site
Backwoods Skyscraper, Derby, Vermont, 2010, by Derek and Dustin Diedricksen, who have built the 26 ft tall structure to accommdate three versatile levels of sleeping space
Sunset Cabin, Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, 2004, by Taylor Smith Architects. The modern cabin was actually built with a nod to an archetypal primitive hut, as described by 18th century Jesuit Abbé Marc-Antoine Laugier
Pavilion In A Garden, Sain-Germain-en-Laye, France, 2010, by FREAKS freearchitects. Built as a storage and office space for the late French photographer André Ostier's archive, the two-storey Pavilion is built on top of an existing 19th century garage
Chen House, Sanjhih, Taipei County, Taiwan, 2008, by Marco Casagrande and Frank Chen of C-Laboratory
Bridge House, Adelaide, Australia, 2008, Max Pritchard Architect. Built atop a creek, the Bridge House has a prefabricated truss system that supports the house
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A new Oxford Street pop-up celebrates IKEA's blue bagsIKEA's iconic blue bag gets its own pop-up concept store, the 'Hus of Frakta'.
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Audemars Piguet and Kaws have created the Royal Oak Concept watch we didn't know we neededThe Audemars Piguet x Kaws Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon 'Companion' is slick wrist-worn art
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A friendly rivalry coloured by kinship: Wendy Maruyama and Tom Loeser on their two-artist show'I wanted to make furniture, just not traditional furniture, but weird furniture,' says Wendy Maruyama on ‘Colorama’, a two-artist show presented at design gallery Superhouse (until 11 January 2025)
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'Tropicality' explored in Indonesian architect Andra Matin’s first monograph'Tropicality' is a key theme in a new book on Indonesian architect Andra Matin, whose work blends landscape, architecture and living
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‘A Time ⋅ A Place’ is a lovingly compiled photographic portrait of cars and architecture‘A Time ⋅ A Place’ is a celebration of the European Car of the Year and changing perceptions of modern design, pairing the best buildings of the age with their automotive contemporaries
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Álvaro Siza’s new monograph through the lens of Duccio Malagamba is impactful and immersiveÁlvaro Siza and photographer Duccio Malagamba collaborate on a new monograph by Phaidon; ‘Before / After: Álvaro Siza Duccio Malagamba’ celebrates the Portuguese architect's work
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Marcio Kogan’s Studio MK27 celebrated in this new monograph from Rizzoli‘The Architecture of Studio MK27. Lights, camera, action’ is a richly illustrated journey through the evolution of this famed Brazilian architecture studio
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‘Interior sculptor’ Christophe Gevers’ oeuvre is celebrated in new book‘Christophe Gevers’ is a sleek monograph dedicated to the Belgian's life work as an interior architect, designer, sculptor and inventor, with unseen photography by Jean-Pierre Gabriel
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Flick through ‘Brutal Wales’, a book celebrating concrete architecture‘Brutal Wales’ book zooms into a selection of concrete Welsh architecture treasures through the lens of photographer Simon Phipps
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Architecture books to inspire shelf loveHere at Wallpaper*, we’ve got architecture books piling up; among them, these are the photographic tomes, architects’ monographs and limited editions that we couldn’t resist
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Pioneering modernist Henry Kulka's life and career tracked in limited-edition monographCzech-New Zealand architect Henry Kulka, a man who spread modernist ideals half way around the world, is celebrated in Giles Reid and Mary Gaudin’s richly illustrated monograph
